Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.